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<p n="421"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50906_geo103">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50906_n421-3">Thomas Postlethwaite</rs>
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of No. 83<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50906_geo104">Aldersgate Street</rs>
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London <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50906_occ69">grocer</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50906_n421-1">Thomas Hood</rs>
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no 115<lb></lb>
Wapping <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50906_geo105">High Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50906_geo106">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50906_occ70">Grocer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50906_n421-2">John Armstrong</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50906_geo107">Kingsland road</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50906_geo108">Shoreditch</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the said County Yeoman Taken on Oath before me<lb></lb>
One of the Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50906_occ71">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50906_geo109">County of Middlesex</rs>
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this Sixth day of December<lb></lb>
1794</p>
<p n="422">The said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50906_n422-1">Thomas Postlethwaite</rs>
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on this Oath saith That on<lb></lb>
the Twenty fifth day of NovemberLast in the Evening<lb></lb>
there was Feloniously stolen from his Shop in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50906_geo110">aldersgate<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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aforesaid two Paper bags of Tea. Weight forty two<lb></lb>
Pounds the Property of his Informant, by some Person<lb></lb>
or Persons unknown. And this Informant Saith that he<lb></lb>
verily believes that the two Paper Bags of Tea now<lb></lb>
Produced by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50906_n422-2">John Armstrong</rs>
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are this Informants<lb></lb>
property,</p>
<p n="423"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50906_n423-1">Thos Postlewaite</rs>
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</p>
<p n="424">The Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50906_n424-1">Thomas Hood</rs>
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saith That the bags of Tea now<lb></lb>
produced to the best of this Informants knowledge are the Property<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50906_n424-2">Thomas Postlethwaite</rs>
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, this Informants saith<lb></lb>
that both the bags are marked in this Informants<lb></lb>
own hand Writing.</p>
<p n="425"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50906_n425-1">Thomas Hood</rs>
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</p>
<p n="426">The said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50906_n426-1">John Armstrong</rs>
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saith That on the Twenty Fifth<lb></lb>
day of November last he found the said Bags of Tea<lb></lb>
now Producedin the boom of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50906_occ72">Prisoner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50906_n426-2">sarah<lb></lb>
Dancer</rs>
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</p>
<p n="427"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50906_n427-1">John Armstrong</rs>
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<p n="428">Taken and Sworn before one the Day<lb></lb>
and Year First above written}</p>
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